I owe you one more chapter, but I'm still gaining my energy back from COVID. I'll have it to you tomorrow.
I wake up slowly, the cold air of the room and the antiseptic smell permeating my senses. I’m laying on my side and stiffness seems to make my body ache. I shift and expect pain, but there’s nothing but the ache of being in the same position for too long. I try to roll on my back, but there are pillows holding me in this position. It’s when I huff out a breath in an attempt to sit up that the movement alerts someone in the room with me. “Kurt?” That voice. That beautiful, melodic voice. It’s her. “Fati?” I ask, craning my neck in an attempt to find her. When my eyes finally rest on hers, something within me eases. “When did you get here? How did you know to come?” She’s up and at my side, her hand caressing my cheeks as her eyes search my face. I’m not sure what she is looking for, but something in my appearance causes her tense shoulders to relax. She lets out a huge sigh and leans down to kiss my forehea
I’ve been trying to figure out I’m going to tell Kurt everything on the way back to the house and I’m no closer to an answer than I was when I got in the car. How do you tell someone that all the fairytales that they had heard that go bump in the night really do exist and that he is now one of them, destined to be the lune of the biggest werewolf pack in the world? Not something that you can tell him as a bedtime story, now is it? Mom, Ba, and Papá are strangely silent, taking up the front and middle seats of the van we’re in, along with Caleb. Kurt and I are in the back, anther precaution to make it harder to figure out where Kurt is, since the back windows are heavily tinted. The silence lets me know that they are furiously mindlinking with each other and listening in to anything that Kurt and I might be saying to each other. I had introduced Kurt to everyone in the car when we got in. Though he was polite and definitely distracted by the situa
I watch Fati shift into her wolf and the look that crosses Kurt’s face. The incredulity and disbelief that bleeds to fear and panic. And he does what people so often do when people don’t understand something. He gets angry.“What the…how the hell – what the fuck!” His hoarse whisper is full of vehemence and near horror.I walk over to him, trying to keep my own fear that he will hurt Fati at bay. I will happily rip his heart from his chest if he fucks this shit up for her. “She’s a werewolf, Kurt. And she and I turned you into one to save your life.”“I am not one of those things!” he hisses out.Fati whines, her beautiful, powerful wolf seeming to curl into herself. Her ears lower, her head bows, and her tail drops between her legs in an effort to make herself smaller. Here is one of the most powerful wolves in our pack being cowed by an ungrateful asshole who has already hurt her enough because he is her mate. Gritting my teeth, I do what I can to keep my temper. I understa
Yesterday morning, Caleb sent me a text message to tell me that he had to go help his friend. The same she-wolf that he had been with on Thanksgiving. Her mate had been in a housefire and had gotten really hurt. He was going as the witch to help transform her human mate into a werewolf. I had no idea that this was even a possibility, but Caleb tells me that it’s the first time that it has really be tried out. It’s always been theoretically possible, but never tried out. They’re lucky that it worked. Though I’m not sure that Kurt feels that way. It’s been…weird. Not having Caleb here. I’ve seen him nearly every day since I first arrived at the Center. I didn’t think that I could miss someone that quickly. They’re all coming back tomorrow night, bringing Fati’s mate with them. He has to stay to talk with the cops and then the insurance company tomorrow and then they’ll be on their way. Fati is going to stay at school but will be
When I had asked Ciara if I could call her, I hadn’t known that this would happen. In my wildest dreams, I never would have imagined that this was running through Ciara’s head. She had been through a lot in that hellhole, but had thankfully made it out without having actual sex. To have that special time taken from her…I don’t know what that would have done to her. That doesn’t mean that she got out of there without scars, both mental and physical. I hadn’t thought that we would get to this point this quickly in our relationship. I will not push her. I will only give her what she is ready for. But this? This is even better than any phone sex that the humans could ever have, because I can feel her emotions. I can see her through her mind’s eye. If I concentrate hard enough, I can even feel some of the sensations that she’s feeling. Though I’m trying not to feel that, because that will surely make me blow my load faster than anything else and
I stand in the clearing in front of an altar to Hecate that we have set up in our backyard. We share part of our land with my parents, meaning that it backs up to the woods and is near a stream, making it peaceful and close to nature. Behind us, the backyard is packed. My parents and three siblings, his parents and three siblings. And that’s just our families. There’s many of the other trios with their families. The Elite. Members of my coven. Selene and Thor. Hecate of course and her group of men. It’s fucking insane just for a pregnancy blessing. But even though it’s been a year after the show down in the Underworld, we all are finding everything that we can do to celebrate. It just brought home the fact that you never know what day is going to be your last. Spend it how you want to gain happiness and love. So that’s what we’re doing, getting a blessing for Nathan and my baby. The baby that we were specifically brought toget
Two days later… I stand in line with the other graduates from the college of Health and Human Development at Arcadia University. My gown feels like a furnace trapping the heat inside and I almost wish that I had taken Finnegan and Ethan’s dare to just go buck ass naked underneath. I could change into my wolf and run home to change before my father would ever see me. Of course, he’d still know. He always knows somehow. I think it has to do with some of the gifts that he gleaned from his mating with my mother and from being an oracle himself. Mom…I wish she was here. Sometimes I can see her when I astral project onto Hecate’s plane, but I wish that she could see me graduate from the career that she encouraged me to do. Her death during the fight with Fenrir outside the gates of Valhalla nearly destroyed our father. When a wolf loses his mate, a piece of his soul dies. Some less powerful wolves will die with their mates, t
The day is spent hanging out with Caleb’s family and mine, along with about 50 other graduates and their families at a huge barbecue. It’s a day full of fun, food, and family and I love it. But I have been waiting for tonight.I’m so proud of Caleb. For finding something that he wanted to do. A way to help people, like he’s always wanted to do.It’s more than I’ve been able to figure out.As a luna in this huge, country-wide pack, it’s my responsibility to find my niche. The thing that I can do to help keep the pack going. Papá became the head of the college. Ba researches all of…well everything for the pack from fighting styles to vacation spots. And Mom is the main Oracle of the pack. They had it all figured out within a year of getting their gifts and I still haven’t even gotten my gift, let alone figured out what I’m going to do with the rest of my life.But I need to put that out of my mind. Because tonight is all about Caleb and the new set of lingerie that